Darth Wiki / The Pokementalists

A Pokémon Fanfic by Wax.

The Pokementalists features examples of:

• Glowing Eyes of Doom: Using Mind-bond powers causes the Trainer's eyes to glow. They can then start using their Pokemon's moves.
• Psychic Link: The Mind-bond some characters share with their Pokemon.
• Story-Breaker Power: Legendary Seals. In short, characters with those can use powers dervied from legendary Pokemon, with no Mind-bond required. However, the plot revolves around finding out and exposing the actual evils in Quetro Enterprise while avoiding its complete destruction by Eric, which proves difficult for teenagers, even with godlike powers.

Character-specifics:

Mic

Profile:

• Age: 12
• Mind-bound Pokemon: Rikko (Metagross)
• Legendary Seal: Giratina

The Hero. Son of Eric, the head to the local police, but bad blood caused him to leave home at age 7. He lives in a little cave a few cities away from his old home for about four years.

Tropes associated with Mic:

• Anti Anti Christ: Despite wielding the powers of Giratina, is a decent kid.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Mic may be nice, but his only Pokemon, Rikko, is a Metagross. Rikko himself is Good Is Not Soft.
• Character Development: Starts out an Idiot Hero, becomes a Sociopathic Hero, then calms down to a Knight in Sour Armor.
• Dimensional Traveler: Mic, using the powers of Giratina, can be this.
• Free-Range Children: Exaggerated, as he's nearly always alone.
• Kid Hero: Mic's eleven years old, like many Pokemon protagonists.
• Idiot Hero: Mic starts out very gullible. When he is captured as a result of the more stupid actions he's taken, he turns asocial though.
• Sociopathic Hero: He lives on his lonesome, and has few contacts with the outside world.
• Stealth Mentor: Rikko, by way of disobeying Mic when he thinks too much about getting his father's approval and beating Zic. They eventually bond back.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: At the beginning, an underlying motif for trying to stop the Quetros is the resolution of his father issues. He's also a bit Driven by Envy for Zic. When he thinks too much about these two, his Mindbond effectively fails him.
• Wild Child: Mic forced this on himself, running away from home at age seven.

Macha

Profile:

• Age: 15
• Mindbound Pokemon: Kingdra
• Legendary Seal: Azelf

A young Pokemon Ranger girl, and one of Mic's few links with society.

Tropes associated with Macha:

• Aloof Ally: To Mic, and that's when she's here: being a Pokemon Ranger, she's bound to other duties that take her away from him for a while.
• The Lancer: Macha is much more serious and collected than Mic is.
• Making a Splash: Her ace is a Kingdra.
• Tomboyish Ponytail

Zic

Profile:

• Age: 15
• Mindbound Pokemon: Gurin (Dragonite)
• Legendary Seal: Dialga

Mic's older brother and The Rival. At 15 years old, he's already a recognized police officer, and nearly revered like a hero. He lives on a boat permanently anchored on a road, and so since he left his father's home.

Tropes associated with Zic:

• The Ace
  • World's Best Warrior: Zic has never lost a battle by the time the plot starts.
    • Defeating the Undefeatable: Daniel pulls this on him.
• Aloof Big Brother: To Mic. The fact that Zic separated from his family too only parted the two brothers even further, adding to Mic's envy. Zic himself isn't really aloof, but standoffish when it comes to his family.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Zic is usually cool-headed, but when he's pissed, getting Gurin (his Dragonite) sicced on your ass is the least of your worries.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Loves showing off and partying without a care for his family, but he wants the best for the world in a bigger picture.
• Kamehame Hadoken: How he uses Gurin's Hyper Beam.
• 100% Heroism Rating: He is beloved for going on nine months of crime-hunting, and having pretty much cleaned up the entire region of most criminality, barring Quetro Enterprise that continues to sneer at him.

Daniel

Profile:

• Age: 13
• Mindbound Pokemon: Rulf (Lucario)
• Legendary Seal: Palkia

The last of the Quetro brothers, he's their lackey and scapegoat. Starts as a suspect of Eric's, but is rapidly fed up with his brothers' bullying and attempts to sabotage them in order to take Quetro Enterprise for himself.

Tropes associated with Daniel:

• Anti-Hero: Daniel fits many of the types.
  • Loser Protagonist: He's a weaker person than his brothers, and they outright bully him due to that.
• Combat Pragmatist: When he starts awakening to his Mind-bond and Legendary Seal, he's not above using those to attacking the opposing Pokemon himself.
  • Knight in Sour Armor
  • Good Is Not Nice: At best, Daniel is socially awkward.
  • Pay Evil unto Evil: At worst, he's downright nasty.
• I Work Alone: Even as a good guy, he works alone and tends to antagonize Mic and Zic (especially Zic) more often than not.
• Never Be Hurt Again: His motivation for being as asocial as he is.
• The Starscream: Becomes a protagonist version of this, aiming to take over the business and right his brothers' wrongdoings.
• Teleporters and Transporters: His most common use of Palkia's powers. Results in Villain: Exit, Stage Left.

Eric

Profile:

• Age: 39
• Mindbound Pokemon: King (Arcanine)

Mic and Zic's father and the most well-known police agent around. He's a man of a few words, and his life is consumed by his work. When he hears of the Quetro fielding a new weapon, he sets out to immediately investigate, in hopes of arresting and jailing the entire Quetro family and destroying their enterprise.

Tropes associated with Eric:

• Badass Normal: He uses only King, his Arcanine, and Turret, his Gastrodon, none of which are even notably powerful mons. Yet he is able to defeat most his targets, sometimes easily. He doesn't even know how to use the Mindbond he shares with King. He also doesn't have supernatural ability to gain powers from legendary Pokemon despite his wishes to exploit Zic's such ability.
• Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: His default procedure.
• The Perfectionist: His victory against the Quetros must be absolute.
• Workaholic

Ludmilla

Profile:

• Age: 17
• Mindbound Pokemon: Phonos (Bronzong)
• Legendary Seal: Mesprit

Zic's partner, she's a Pokemon breeder. While she's not working for the police unlike Zic, this only helps him in more delicate situations.

Tropes associated with Ludmilla:

• Dual Boss: She fights in Double Battles.
• Extra-ore-dinary: Both her known Pokemon are a Forretress (named "Toby") and Phonos, her Bronzong. Via Mindbond with Phonos, she can actually use some of its attacks, and she mostly uses Steel-type moves.
• Hot-Blooded: In comparison to Zic, who stays relatively cool and nonchalant, she loves the share of action she gets.
• Martial Pacifist: Even though she does prone pacifism and prefers to battle for show if at all.

Rachel

Profile:

• Age: 14
• Mindbound Pokemon:
• Legendary Seal: Uxie

Daniel's Only Friend and his confidante.

Tropes associated with Rachel:

• Blessed with Suck: If she crosses eyes with someone, they start forgetting things. It's actually her sharing powers from Uxie.
• Cute Clumsy Girl: Due to the Sunglasses at Night schtick, she cannot go into a place that doesn't have bright lights without assistance.
• The Ditz: She tends to be out-there.
• Lonely Rich Kid: Her Legendary Seal awakened very early, and her severe Power Incontinence made people think she was cursed. Even her family hates her, only keeping her alive because killing her off is politically incorrect. Her and Daniel are Lonely Together.
• Morality Pet: For Daniel.
• Power Incontinence: She can't stop her Blessed with Suck. She eventually learns how to keep her powers in check very late, but never quite manages to totally suppress them.
• Rich Bitch: Behaves like this at the beginning. The act drops when her panrets disinherit her.
• Sunglasses at Night: To avoid anyone looking at her straight in the eyes.

The Quetro Brothers

Jean's Profile:

• Age: 25

Jacques' Profile:

• Age: 23
• Mindbound Pokemon: None -> Gideon/Gid (Nidoking)

Pierre's Profile:

• Age: 19

Paul's Profile:

• Age: 16

Daniel's older brothers, and villains each in their own right. While warring for power within the group, they remain together under the pretense of fighting the police.

Tropes associated with the Quetro brothers:

• Big Bad: Jean
  • Non-Action Big Bad
• The Don: Jean
• The Mafia
• Manipulative Bastard: Pierre. He lures Mic into piloting his latest Kill Sat, saying it's some kind of video game. Mic buys it.
• Noble Demon: Jacques. He even gets Gid to kill Paul with Horn Drill after he guesses correctly and spots Paul attempting to stab Jean in the back.
• Not-So-Harmless Villain: Jacques. He starts out as a Harmless Villain who does no direct progress, but midway through the plot he does strike a Mindbond with Gid (see below), and suddenly becomes the largest direct threat of the four by far.
• Odd Name Out: The Quetro brothers are, from oldest to youngest: Jean, Jacques, Pierre, Paul, and Daniel.
• Take Over the World: Their aim, via taking control of the police forces / replacing them with their militia.
• Vitriolic Brothers: While they have a common objective, their motives are wildly different.
  • Jean is Only in It for the Money, and wants to get the riches.
  • Jacques hates how the police is essentially corrupt and thinks it's better for him to take the helm, because at least he admits being evil.
  • Pierre has a bad case of Lack of Empathy and wants the clan to rule everyone For the Evulz.
  • Paul is a Misanthrope Supreme who simply believes Despotism Justifies the Means.
• Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: Paul's favored tactic is attacking the Trainers with the aforementioned Nidoking.
• Wicked Cultured: Jacques.